Re: MIN/MAX functions for a record

Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com> writes:
>> In my queries I often need to do MIN/MAX for tuples, for example:
>> SELECT MAX(row(year, month))
>> FROM (VALUES(2025, 1), (2024,2)) x(year, month);
>> This query throws:
>> ERROR: function max(record) does not exist
>> Was this ever discussed or is there something preventing the implementation?

> I believe it would be challenging to implement max(record) that would
> work reasonably well in a general case.

As long as you define it as "works the same way record comparison
does", ie base it on record_cmp(), I don't think it would be much
more than a finger exercise [*].  And why would you want it to act
any differently from record_cmp()?  Those semantics have been
established for a long time.

            regards, tom lane

[*] Although conceivably there are some challenges in getting
record_cmp's caching logic to work in the context of an aggregate.